Developer portal documentation out of date and frustrating
FYI: this is just a rant to apple and a big thank you to this forum!
I have solved all my issues and finally have apps running on my testing device.. but no thanks to the out of date and confusing documentation. If it wasn't for this forum, I still will be figuring out how to select provisional profile in XCode.
Problems with the documentation:
1. "Installing iPhone OS":
I spent hours looking for "OS X iPhone 2.0 .ipsw" on the dev center. I thought to myself, do I really need this? I convinced myself, it must be a special version of iphoneOS for developing. I mean why else would it still be in "how to guide". Thanks to the forum for telling me otherwise. I still do not know if you have to "restore ipod". I ended up restore ipod just in case.
2. Generating an App ID:
What's with the asterick.. At least the document got that right and specifically tells you to enter an "*". But if you should always enter an asterick then why even make that a step to perform. Is there any reason to not enter an "*"??
3.Running your Development App on a provisioned device
Here's where I had the biggest trouble:
"In the Project Info window, select the ‘Build’ tab and enter “iPhone Developer: <YourFirstName> <YourLastName> in the ‘Code Signing Identity’ > ’Any iPhone OS’ field setting. This is the also the Common Name of your iPhone Development Certificate."
Ugh FIX THAT LINE in documentation. It drove me nuts.. you see I placed "IPhone Developer: Rick Mullinix" in for Code Signing Identity. Which seems correct, that is my identity. But no, that leads to not seeing provisioning profile as a choose.
Thanks to the forum, I changed the identity to "IPhone Developer".. and it works!
But that leads to another question... how does "IPhone Developer" identitfy anybody? We are all "IPhone Developer(s)".. I guess we are all thought to be the same by Apple.. might as well make everyone place "Cash Cow" as their identity.
4. Over all:
I am still confused by all the certificates, profiles, key chains.. seems all magical to me, it works and all, but I wish documentation had better wording and definitions to help my understanding.
-Thanks again to this forum, and I hope that "Distributing my App" wont be as difficult.
1. No, you don't have to restore your ipod. As long as you're running the fw 2.0 (and above) your ipod is ready for development.
2. don't know. i'm just glad that it works
3. Just look into your keychain under Certificates. There should be one named "iPhone Developer: <your> <name>". Enter that line in xcode. "iPhone Developer: Jon Doe" for example. You just have to enter the exact name of the certificate in xcode.
4. Yeah, that stuff is pretty confusing. My Dev-Account got activated yesterday and I spent the whole day just setting up my certs and tax-info. It was really frustrating and time consuming. I'm (negatively) surprised by the ammount of real paperwork you have to do. It just doesn't get in my head that you have to print and snailmail that many letters for something like an internet application store. But that's another story
just my 2 rest-of-the-world cents
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